Decolonial Feminisms: Democratic Challenges, Queer Counter-Narratives and Post-Human Futures

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The objective of this panel is to explore some of the epistemological and ontological challenges facing decolonial feminisms in Latin America. We will focus on the interventions decolonial feminisms are making in the debates on democratization, geo-epistemological configurations of queerness and more recent concerns about climate change and the deconstruction of the nature/culture, human/non-human binaries.

Sub Track

• Genders, Feminisms and Sexualities

Session Organizer

• Claudia de Lima Costa, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Chair

• Sonia E Alvarez, University of Massachusetts/Amherst

Individual Presentations

• La Colonialidad de la Democracia y el Feminismo Descolonial - Breny Mendoza, California State University/Northridge

• Feminismo Decolonial: Um Debate Crítico. - LUCIANA BALLESTRIN

• Queering Coloniality, Decolonizing Queerness - Amy C Lind, University of Cincinnati

• The Climate Change of Decolonial Feminisms: Toward Post-Human Futures - Claudia de Lima Costa, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Discussant

• Marlise M Almeida, UFMG